I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)

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I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned”, to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16, 1983, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. It was titled Variations on "I'm Old Fashioned" at its first performance, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E5DF123BF93BA25755C0A965948260 NY Times] by Anna Kisselgoff, June 18, 1983 but the name was truncated to its current form the following week. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED6133BF93BA15755C0A965948260 NY Times] by Anna Kisselgoff, June 28, 1983